Motivational Quotes

Poverty and the poor

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

- Reston, James

Poverty and the poor Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Poverty and the poor

When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

Todd, Mike

The poor will always be with you. [John 12: 8]

Bible

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

Proverb

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Brecht, Bertolt

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived. (Oh not deprived but rather underprivileged.) Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.

Feiffer, Jules

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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

France, Anatole

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To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

Cobbett, William

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America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

Steinem, Gloria

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Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

Hugo, Victor

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I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.

Landon, Melville D.

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He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.

Bible

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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspirations after goodness and truth -- how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

Whitman, Walt

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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Fuller, Thomas

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Empty pockets make empty heads.

Williams, William Carlos

22.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Pitt, William

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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.

Proverb, Hebrew

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Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Herold, Don

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I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. [On his childhood]

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

Hegel, Georg

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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Michelet, Jules

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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Smith, Sydney

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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.

France, Anatole

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Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.

Garfield, James A.

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To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things -- but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

Dickens, Charles

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You lose your manners when you're poor.

Hellman, Lillian

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When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.

Proverb

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I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

Marquand, John

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Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.

Sue, Eugene

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Four specters haunt the Poor -- Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land.

George, David Lloyd

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In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Confucius

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That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.

Harrington, Michael

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At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.

Wall, Derek

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No one is poor who does not think they are, however, if in prosperity with impatience they desire more, and proclaim their wants they disclose their beggarly condition.

Taylor Jeremy

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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

Marden, Orison Swett

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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Gardner, John W.

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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Limbaugh, Rush

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.